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The ‘Making of” Climate Modelling

How do we know what we know about climate change? Computing the Climate takes us behind the scenes of modern climate science, exploring the history, models, labs, and minds that shaped and continue to shape our understanding. This journey not only sheds light on the past but also explains why and how our actions today influence the range of possible futures of our planet's climate.
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Stepping into your Courage
Biz StrategyBook ReviewsGovernance

The Courage to Act: The inside view on creating change

Sustainability is usually thought of as an environmental issue. And it is. But but not only. It is in fact a mindset. One that takes courage. This magazine - come out of a creative collaboration - explores three key questions by interviewing personalities in business (Vincent Stanley from Patagonia, Eric Garnier from Choba Choba, Adriana Marina from Hecho x Nosostros, Fergal Smith from the Moy Hill Farm and Andy Middleton from the TYF Group), and by giving space to written creativity of sustainability professionals. The three fundamental questions are: How does ‘creating change’ feel from within? What does it mean to swim against the business mainstream because genuinely the status quo does not work? Where and how does courage come into play?
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Plenty of value in the waste
Biz StrategyCircularityGlobalisationSupply Chain

Circularity and Business Models: 2 US reports, many learnings

The world, by and large, operates based on land-filling. The only way to improve the situation any time soon is: not to landfill. At all. Or at least as little as possible, and that asap. To that extent, 2 reports on textiles the circular economy have been published, both of which look at the issue from different, and complementary perspectives. What is it that we can learn from these 2 reports, side by side? One, the old adage could not be any truer: One Man’s Rubbish is another Man’s Treasure. And: True cost accounting would make a huge difference.
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